We can tell that this is at least a skate because it has more of that kind of fleshy tail, whereas a ray is going to have just sort of the long, skinny, bony tail.
Watch lead, I’ve got a question. Those little brown dots on it, the really small ones. Do you know, are those chromatophores that have the ability to change its color?
That’s a great question, video.
So Ken Sulak has joined us and he says that there are a lot of fish that have chromatophores, which can be expanded or contracted to change color and patterns.
The kind of spottedness gives them what’s kind of known as disruptive camouflage.
So it makes them a little bit more difficult to see, especially because there’s not much light down here, if any.